Ridership on New York City subways is down by 67 percent from before the pandemic. Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Sarah Feinberg says it is all the media’s fault.
The MTA “was really ill-served by some of the early coverage of the pandemic,” she says. “People started thinking, ‘the last place I want to be is in a crowded subway car.'” She claims that “study after study” has found that transit was not “vectoring the virus.”
The New York Post article reporting on her statement snarks that she made it “without referencing specific studies.” But what do you expect? The Post, after all, is part of the media.
It must be the media’s fault that the MTA ordered its drivers not to wear masks last March because they didn’t go with their uniforms — and 136 MTA employees died. It must be the media’s fault that New York Governor Cuomo issued a stay-at-home order last March, telling people not to gather in groups of any size.
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It is certainly the media’s fault that a Johns Hopkins study was reported to have found that “public transit use . . . remained significantly associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.” After all, if the media hadn’t reported it, hardly anyone would know about it.
Of course, it’s also the media’s fault that people find out about studies like the one finding that the subways are so polluted with soot that riders should have been wearing masks all along. And if it weren’t for the pesky media, most people probably wouldn’t know that subway crime is up despite the decline in ridership.
The Post article concludes by saying, “A study commissioned by the agency has predicted that subway ridership won’t return to pre-COVID-19 levels until at least 2024.” That seems to be the prevailing wisdom in the transit industry; at least, a recent report from the San Francisco BART district says the same thing. I don’t believe that ridership will ever return to pre-pandemic levels, but the industry has to say so in order to justify the tens of billions in subsidies it wants Congress to give them.
‘The last place I want to be is in a crowded subway car.’”
Maybe not the last place—under an avalanche or next to an erupting volcano might be worse. but subway cars certainly are near the top of any list.
I have had a standing question for the last several months. I ask people how much $$$ I would have to pay them to take a NYC subway. No one has ever asked for any $$$ – they all say “no way”.
Must be the media’s fault.